About Mauritius standards bureau – MSB

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About MSB:

Mauritius standards bureau (MSB) is a
corporate body which was formed under the Mauritius standards bureau act 1993. The
bureau is responsible for standardization, quality assurance, testing and
metrology and also exhibits confirmation of assessments. The custodian of
national measurement standards is for mass, length, force, temperature,
pressure and electricity. MSB is the member of most of important organizations
such as international organization for standardization (iso), international
electrotechnical commission (iec) and african organization for standardization
(arso).

MSB has 5 technical divisions for the
core functional activities which are the standards development division,
quality assurance division, chemical division, metrology division and engineering
division. These divisions are guided from the support services also along with
finance, marketing, general administration, human resources, documentation and
information services.

Consumer protection
act:

The consumer protection came to
existence from 1st october 2017. It is the regulation set up for safety
requirements. This regulation if for the purpose of verification which is the
certificate of conformity (COC). The
enforcement authority is given by ministry of industry, commerce and consumer
protection.

Procedure of MSB:

The goods which are imported is inspected under MSB,
where it is tested whether the goods are covered from COC.

Before importing there should be formal request done
in the MSB website where the importers should fill the request form with the
verification on COC to submit MSB.

after the
submission the MSB can continue in issuing the letter of confirmation or
non-confirmation letter to the importer.

The standards of goods safety are verified by various
services such as electrical, mechanical and fire